Sampa, the personal homepage creator for families, has raised $1M in Series A financing from a group of individuals including Geoff Entress and former executives from Microsoft, Netscape, and Lightsurf.
The Redmond-based company has also rebuilt its user interface so that it’s more intuitive for soccer moms who don’t know any of the concepts behind making websites. The new design puts the editor side-by-side with the end result, allowing users to see immediately how their changes affect their pages. In contrast, the previous version had users going back and forth between two different views as they would in a desktop program like FrontPage.
While there are not many new features per se, Sampa now has a completely new set of themes and colors. CEO Paul Gross says that the changes in aggregate make the site more of a competitor to focus sites like Babyjellybeans and MyFamily.com rather than website builders like Weebly or Jimdo.
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Is this another Netvibes?
there are a lot of sites in the “MyFamily” space, getting crowded….
I tried is a while back when TC first covered this company. I did not think too highly of it. I have been trying to delete the account ever since. Or at least, stop the emails.
Interesting… in Indonesian, Sampa (Sampah) means rubbish.
The UX improved dramatically since six months ago. But you have to create a new account to get the new UX. It is an awesome site for the audience they are targeting. Very easy to setup a family site. A bit short on templates right now but I’m sure they’ll add a lot more
Hi Mark, there’s a typo in our company-name, it’s Jimdo. Thanks!
Hahaha at least Matthias #6 has a good sense of humor!
good raise